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Problem #2 -Truth or Dare, Then and Now

I'm going to clear this up before I start writing about this problem:

Just because they're numbered 1, 2, 3, does NOT mean they are actually properly ordered in that way. They're just to indicate they're... chapters, I guess you would say. And in Problem #1, at the end when I say Parker is Problem 1, does not mean he's my first problem either. He's the first one I'm mentioning.

Trust me when I say this: if I wanted to write from the beginning, you'd be reading about a fourth grade elementary school kid.

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I met Parker through my friend who I'll call Katie.

She said they were going to play Super Smash Bros at his house and invited me to come with. I was cool with it. I wanted to hang out with my friends, even though I ended up not playing at all.

See, I'm not a huge gamer. Now that I think about it, this is actually quite funny because I am presently fairly good at this game. I could beat people out every now and then, but I only use Pikachu. Anyhow, I wasn't too open at the time and so I just watched. There were more people than there were controllers then, so the people waiting their turn went outside to play Foosball.

This game... This was what I was better at.

Until I found out that the people I were playing with were crazy. I just stayed as a scorekeeper then.

Eventually, people started to go home and it was just me, Katie, Parker, and another girl and guy.

We sat together in a circle on the trampoline and started playing truth or dare. Well actually, I think we took the dares out and played truth or truth. Either way, we had some pretty good stuff to talk about: "Name the best feature of everyone in the circle," "Who is the most attractive person in your school," and so on.

Then this question was just opened up to everyone: "Who's more attractive, Parker or...?"and the other choice was the other boy there.

I chose the other boy.

Now to the present time. Like I said in Problem #1, I turned sixteen. I was old enough to go to Mormon Prom this year. Well, on the night of the event, I was invited to Katie's house to have "Un-Prom" because I didn't get asked. It was a bummer, and the night at her house wasn't exactly going too well.

See, she invited some of her own friends and we just didn't mix too well together. It could have been a better time if they weren't being so out of control.

But that's in the past now and doesn't matter too much to what I'm trying to say here.

We managed to sit down together, calmly, to play a game of truth or dare. Coincidentally, we were seated on a trampoline as well. This one's cooler though because it's built into the ground. Anyhow, I managed to only be asked truth or dare once which was pretty good because I wasn't in the mood.

It was Katie's turn to ask and she went and asked Parker, "Truth or dare?"

He responded, "Truth."

"On a scale of one to ten, how much do you like Maddi romantically?"

I laughed, but everyone was attentive and ready to hear the answer.

"You know what, I'm just going to do this just for Maddi; Chen out of Chen."

I threw my head back in laughter and actually fell all the way onto my back. Everyone was really confused so I cleared it up, "He meant ten out of ten, but it's a joke."

I won't forget the look on Katie's face though; she nodded with a signature smile that meant she was understanding something and unraveling details in her mind to come to a conclusion.

I totally just blew him off.

It didn't help that one day at lunch, I was sitting with some of my friends in color guard, and they decided to start shipping people in our band.

It came to me, and I was shipped with two people. One person, I'll save his story for a later time. But of course, the other person was Parker.

"No, you weren't there at her party when they danced. They were SO cute."

Problem number 2 of...

A lot.